The Pre-Raphaelites

✍ Scribed by Robert de la Sizeranne

• Publisher: Parkstone Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Series: Art of Century Collection
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, close to William Morris Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major painters of the circle such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, in opposition to the academicism of the time, favoured realism and biblical themes over the affected canons of the nineteenth century. This work, with its captivating text and rich illustrations, describes with enthusiasm this singular movement which notably inspired the followers of Art Nouveau and Symbolism.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
English Art in 1844......Page 7
The Pre-Raphaelite Battle......Page 43
The Definition and Results of Pre-Raphaelitism......Page 77
Intentions......Page 109
Major Artists......Page 153
William Holman Hunt (London, 1827 - London, 1910)......Page 155
Sir John Everett Millais (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896)......Page 161
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London, 1828 - Birchington, 1882)......Page 169
Ford Madox Brown (Calais, 1821 - London, 1893)......Page 175
Arthur Hughes (London, 1832 - Kew, 1915)......Page 181
Sir Edward Burne-Jones (Birmingham, 1833 - West Stratton, 1898)......Page 185
William Morris (Walthamstow, 1834 - Kelmscott, 1896)......Page 189
Notes......Page 194
Index......Page 196